A CGD blog. Second in the series on the UK’s Integrated Review, Charles Kenny looks at the UK’s international relations policy
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
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A CGD blog. How should member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee classify their support to private sector investments in developing countries though development finance institutions? Either way, donors have decided that DFIs are in the aid business. And that means that DFIs shoul…
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In Barrons on Operation Warp Speed and why the Pentagon should be part of but shouldn't be leading efforts to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.
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A CGD blog with Asif Saleh. Non-medical masks are a comparatively affordable intervention that could be rolled out at scale in developing countries, were WHO guidance to change. At the moment, apparel firms in developing countries have considerable spare capacity because of cancelled orders. Taking all of this into accoun…
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For slate: America First can't beat a pandemic.
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A note for CGD with Todd Moss. Answer: competition, make loans less attractive than market, use transparent benchmarks.
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In the Washington Post on the COVID-19 stimulus component that is giving cash directly to people.
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Leaders around the world have restricted nonessential travel to varying degrees, some sealing off their borders entirely, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. In the past, these measures may have worked. But the history of disease-driven border lockdowns has some sobering lessons. For Politico.
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A CGD blog. The World Bank Group has some very clear (and very good) guidelines about what makes for a successful public-private partnership where governments contract service provision like energy supply or education from private firms. Sadly, the bank has been ignoring that rule recently. And that is a sign o…
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